In message <199907311702.KAA22669@lestat.nas.nasa.gov>, Jason Thorpe writes:
>In fact, on the Inspiron 3500, you want to set it to 0x8000.  As far as
>I can tell, that's the only interrupt that PCMCIA devices can use on
>this laptop[*].

>[*] I actually think that IRQ 14 might be usable, too.  But that happens to
>be the "compatibility" interrupt on the PCI IDE controller.  I would like
>to know if PCI IDE "compatibility" interrupts are really edge triggered
>(like our code claims) or if they're actually level triggered (like other
>PCI interrupts).  They would have to be level triggered in order for
>PCMCIA devices to use them.

Oh, very interesting.  On this 3500, both 14 and 15 are in use - one for hard
drive, one for CD-ROM - and the ne2000 is working fine on IRQ 9.

Hmm.  Speaking of quirks, this laptop emits apm information about every
minute to /dev/console if apm is on.  Any way to turn this "feature" off?

:)

-s